What type of natural disasters affect the area you live in?

There are many news now on my country Indonesia, which several times experienced big earthquakes and tsunamis. Indonesia s in the Equator line and consists of thousands islands, big and small, habitual and non habitual. These conditions make Indonesia on a high risk of earthquakes and tsunamis. Well, I am not good at describing facts, especially science.

I grew up in your state, and I live in Kansas now. I have lived in California, and have visited the East Coast some. I would say I still prefer tornadoes to any thing else. We forget that we CAN have earthquakes in our part of the country, but have not had a major one. Hurricanes, we are pretty immune to. I would also think about blizzards and droughts as natural disasters, and ice storms. We have had some of each here. The ice storms are crazy. Some people get floods. Not so much my area, but other parts of town. The first year my brother lived in Guthrie, he got flooded in in July. Last winter they got snowed in in February. Yep, I still think I prefer tornadoes and/or blizzards overall.

Storms and floods freak me out. Though I’ve never myself experience flooding, but its happening every year in some place or the other in my country. The TV footage that we see during those horrible days…hungry homeless people with just tiny bundles of whatever they could salvage before entire villages got washed away, vacant eyes looking for that speck of a helicopter which might just drop a food packet of clean drinking water…carcasses just flowing by with none to dispose them, its just too much for me.

We're more of a Earthquake prone area, though I couldn't really say that we are because we've not had earthquakes often. However, it's the main reason why it was only until recently that we had buildings above five floors. The tallest so far over the recent years is about 17 floors, that's far from the other cities who could build up to the 30th floor or more. I guess people or builders were afraid of the constant earthquakes a few years back but now are confident about the endeavors - hopefully not over confident. I'm glad though that apart from earthquakes, my city is quite great to live in. We don't have typhoons, floods, snow (we're a tropical country), and with lesser pollution at that.

I think its better off to ask ..what type of goodness you have in your area. haven't you notice that disaster happens all the same in any place in this planet?

I have never ever seen tornado in my life, but the stories I heard made me really scare it. I live in California and yes we do get earthquakes, but they are not yet too violent. But you'll never know what will happen tomorrow. The worst kind of natural disaster to me is a sandstorm. I lived in Middle East 8 years and I saw the extreme faces of sandstorms. They are horrible. One even threw our dish antenna from the terrace and broke an Arab's mercedes. It is good that he never found out that it belonged to us. We were foreigners there. He could easily force us to pay for the damage.

we dont get much, mostly just a lot of snow during the winter. last summer however, we did have a flood in a part of our city. it rained so hard and so fast that we got about 24 inches of rain in a short period of time.

I live in south Florida and we're getting close to hurricane season here. I prefer hurricanes to earthquakes and tornados because we have plenty of time to prepare for a big storm and, thanks to technology, we are pretty well informed about it's track and strength so we know whether it's safe to stay or if we need to leave. When I lived in Maryland a tornado came through...fortunately it didn't get close to my house...and that really freaked me out. I don't like the idea of having only a few minutes to get to safety. Stay safe.

In Georgia (U.S.) we get alot of tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods. Over the past years the activity has gone done alot though.

We only had hail and flood here but i live in a block so nothing effected my home jet. I guess i'd freek out the most if fish would start raining here. That happened somewhere in the world. Tornado picked up water and fish and dropped them somewhere else. That would be just crazy. But the worst thing that can happen i think is a powerful quake.

Here on our country, the most common natural disaster is typhoon, for the reason that we are located near the Pacific Ocean.Typhoons results to floods and landslides in our place.Am just glad we havent experienced any tornado or earthquake.Hope it wont happen on our country.

hi roxxtime, there are only two natural disasters that mostly affect our country that is El nino and La nina.. hehehe when it is El nino our country is very2x hot.. like now we are experiencing drought in our waters.. it very hot that i cannot think strait... and i cannot sleep at 12 o clock to 3 pm because of the rise in temperature,.. When it rains so hard here in our area it is also bad because of the flood....

i think the typhoon is was made me so afraid.. and also the floods..

Well I live in California so I am use to earthquakes but here in Northern California it's a different story. We have flash floods and it is scary on my part because due to the heat here we can experience both. There are a lot of people who are not prepared for the worse. Which the worse scenario would be a levy breaking and a major earthquake similar to the one in San Francisco. That is my ultimate fear having it happen when we least expect it the weather is so tricky here rain today and sunny tomorrow.

I live in central Canada and find that tornados are surfacing more and more over the last five years of so. But what is really bad here is the flooding. After the ice breaks up over the lakes the height and level of the water goes up. There are roads and bridges that have to be closed because of this. But that's the worst thing we have to deal with when it comes to seasonal natural disasters here. The natural disaster that freaks me out the most would have to be a tornado or earthquake. Take care

i live in gujarat india. in 2001 there was a earth quake here which killed almost 100 thousand people. thanks to god my city was not effected at all. i was in the classes so people there were stunned and paniced and run here and there. also all schools were closed and there was no electricity and no phone. we got the news of the effect of earth quake next day.

I live in the Philippines. We have earthquakes, typhoons that result to flood that may result to landslides, and volcanic eruptions. Oh but you said frequent, so it's just earthquake and the typhoons and floods. Scary. The worst one we had was Ondoy that resulted to a flood in some part of the cities that was around 4 to 5 feet or over some houses tall.